Lesser-Known Color Vocabulary: D Through L

By evad // March 26, 2009

With a little help from the Phrontistery and a colors study series by CLmember Miaki, we've put together a guide to lesser-known color vocabulary.

	pale green colour
	of or like ivory; ivory-coloured
	reddish colour
	of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron
	dead-leaf colour; dull brown

	flame-coloured
	yellowish or turning yellow
	sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; of or pertaining to soot
	dull yellow; tawny
	brown; tawny; dingy
	reddish-yellow colour
	sea-green; greyish-blue
	dark golden yellow
	of a grey-beige colour
	violet-grey
	pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled
	blood-coloured
	purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror
	pale silver-grey colour; grey with age
	of a blue or purple colour
	violet-coloured
	large stork-like bird; a pale apricot colour
	yellowish or marked with yellow
	jaundiced; yellow
	carnation-coloured; blood-red
	deep blue-violet colour; a blue-violet dye
	clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown colour
	greyish yellow
	orange colour
	yellow like a jasmine
	brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects
	light brown or tan
	brick-red
	white or pale-coloured
	grey; dapple-grey
	grey-green; blue-green
	red-yellow; yellow-brown
	yellowish
	golden-yellow
	yellowish

See the rest of the alphabet: A - C, D - L, M - R, S - Z.

Written by evad

www.colourlovers.comDavid Sommers has been loving color as COLOURlovers' Blog Editor-in-Chief for the past two years. When he's not neck deep in a rainbow he's loving other things with The Post Family (http://thepostfamily.com/), a Chicago-based art blog, artist collective & gallery.